Dr. Rupakjyoti Borah It is often said that “whoever is the Lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.” ...
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Mizuki Okada interviewed U.S.-China expert Dr. Larry M. Wortzel about Northeast Asian security issues on May 25...
This past year has been the second most momentous in the long history of the abductions of Japanese citizens carried out by North Korea....
Emojis have imbedded themselves in our smart phone-obsessed culture. The Emoji Movie may have received a less-than-stellar critical review (currently holding an impressively low 8%...
A new study indicates that the so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is 16 times bigger than previous estimates. This swirling collection of trash between...
The ruins of “Isawa Castle” are in the city of Oshu, Iwate prefecture, in the region of Michinoku, better known as Tohoku on the...
Above: photo taken by Nheyob of a stained glass window depicting St. Patrick / Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month, alongside a flurry of announcements...
Calls in the government and the media to participate in the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) expansionist economic project being promoted by Chinese President Xi...
The ema depicted an armor-tugging scene by Torii Kiyonaga. (Part 4 of a Series on the Art of Kuniyoshi) There are still many artists and...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo “Shoryuken!” “Hadoken!” In the early ’90s, middle school and high school students could be found flooding arcade centers—also known as...
The raw material used to make Japanese swords is called tamahagane. On January 24, production of the annual batch of tamahagane for Japan’s swordsmiths began...
North Korean athletes have arrived at PyeongChang Olympics facility. North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympic Games, which begin on February 9th in PyeongChang, South...
